The Manchester Housing Authority plans to redevelop a block that contains one of the largest undeveloped parcels in downtown Manchester. The plan involves constructing affordable and market-rate housing, and commercial space. The housing authority contracted with the newly formed Manchester Affordable Housing Corp., a private nonprofit, to renovate and manage the apartment building, called Harbor Hill, and to construct 24 condominiums, five of which would be sold to first-time homebuyers.

Four small businesses currently in a commercial block would be replaced with six commercial condominiums, to be sold at market rate, and would help pay for the affordable housing component. According to Joanne Graves, executive director of the Manchester Housing Authority, there will be 80 units of senior housing and four units of affordable housing.

The project required an override on the ballot that was approved by the town last year. Still, local residents whose property abuts the site have become increasingly concerned at the height and density of the project. But Graves tells GlobeSt.com that those concerns are being taken into consideration. "We are going to have a new meeting for the abutters at the end of this month," she says. "There is no final plan yet. We are still very much in discussion."